In a mini-series on the blog we highlight the work of our maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.

This week the spotlight shines on @floord, Principal Program Manager at @edbpostgres and #PostgreSQL contributor: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/contributor-highlight-floor-drees/

One of the most requested features for CloudNativePG was the ability to upgrade PostgreSQL to a higher major version, declaratively.

The 1.26 version of CloudNativePG introduces the declarative offline in-place major upgrades of PostgreSQL made possible through the use of the Postgres native tool pg_upgrade.

@CloudNativePG maintainer Jonathan Battiato writes about it on the @edbpostgres blog: ▶️ https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/offline-place-major-upgrades-cloudnativepg

At Cloud Native Days Italy today, Jonathan Battiato and Jonathan Gonzalez run a workshop on managing PostgreSQL in Kubernetes.

We'll upload the slides here, so you can follow the workshop on-demand as well: https://gist.github.com/sxd/5f1ecaf041898955294035aa7e1aeca9 @edbpostgres

Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village! In a mini-series on the blog we highlight the work of our maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.

This week the spotlight shines on Marco Nenciarini, Esteemed Senior Principal Engineer at @edbpostgres: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/contributor-highlight-marco-nenciarini/ #PostgreSQL

Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village! In a mini-series on the blog we highlight the work of our maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.

Today we meet Jonathan Battiato, an engineer on the Cloud Native team at @edbpostgres: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/contributor-highlight-jonathan-battiato/ #PostgreSQL @jonnylee

Going to DevOpsDays Amsterdam? Make sure you attend our workshop on handling data in Kubernetes with @CloudNativePG, by EDB Senior Staff SDE Jonathan Gonzalez!

▶️ June 18, 10:45 CEST, Studio: https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-amsterdam/program #PostgreSQL @amsterdam

The pictures for KCD Helsinki (Kubernetes Community Days) are out, and we just had to share this snap of Gabriele Quaresima - look at the excitement, talking about @CloudNativePG 🤩 https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-helsinki-presents-kcd-helsinki-2025/cohost-kcd-helsinki

Going to DevOpsDays Amsterdam? Make sure you attend our workshop on handling data in Kubernetes with CloudNativePG, by @edbpostgres Senior Staff SDE and maintainer Jonathan Gonzalez!

▶️ June 18, 10:45 CEST, Studio: https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-amsterdam/program #PostgreSQL

Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. On our blog we highlight the work of our maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community. Today we meet PGXN maintainer David Wheeler: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/contributor-highlight-david-wheeler/ @theory

CloudNativePG 1.26.0 and 1.25.2 released 🎉

New stuff:
🔹 Declarative offline in-place major upgrades of PostgreSQL
🔹 Enhanced startup and readiness probes for replicas
🔹 Declarative Management of Extensions and Schemas

Important changes:
🔹 Start Barman Cloud deprecation period
🔹 Declarative hibernation support for the plugin

We recommend all users:
1️⃣ Upgrade to 1.26.0 for the latest features and long-term stability
2️⃣ If you’re on 1.25.x, upgrade to 1.25.2
https://cloudnative-pg.io/releases/cloudnative-pg-1-26.0-released/

4500+ Pull Requests, 460+ Lines of Code, 158 contributors, 6.000 Stars - thanks everyone for supporting the project thus far ✨ The best is yet to come! https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg

Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. Once a week on our blog we highlight the work of our maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community. Today we meet Francesco Canovai, Senior Staff SDE at @edbpostgres: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/contributor-highlight-francesco-canovai/ @fcanovai

Apply to work on the Foreign Data Wrappers project in the LFX Mentorship Jun/Aug cohort, and receive a stipend to work on open source software this summer: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/lfx-cncf-mentorship/

@edbpostgres Gabriele Bartolini joined the la(te)st stream of the Postgres Extension Ecosystem mini-summits to talk about improving the Postgres extensions experience in Kubernetes with CloudNativePG. The recording is out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbNuUs59j2I #PostgreSQL

We're doing schema migrations on CloudNativePG clusters using the Atlas operator, on the blog: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/migrations-with-atlas-and-cloudnativepg/ #PostgreSQL

June 23, at Cloud Native Days (CND) Italy, @edbpostgres Jonathan Battiato & Jonathan Gonzalez run a CloudNativePG workshop - explaining how to deploy a #PostgreSQL cluster and manage it in Kubernetes: https://cloudnativedaysitaly.org/agenda/workshop-morning-2 @jonnylee

46 Stars✨ to go until we hit the 6k milestone, just saying... https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg

🚀 CloudNativePG 1.26.0 RC3 is Here! 🚀

This third release candidate helps us validate and polish some of the most anticipated features coming:
🔹 Declarative offline in-place PostgreSQL major upgrades
🔹 Smarter startup and readiness probes for replicas
🔹 Declarative management of extensions and schemas
🔹 The new Barman Cloud Plugin for backup and recovery

We're calling on the community to test this release in non-production environments and share your feedback: https://cloudnative-pg.io/releases/cloudnative-pg-1-26.0-rc3-released/

LFX Mentorship is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation mentorship platform that spans across the CNCF projects. We have proposed a project for the June cohort, and we’re looking for mentees to sign up until May 27: https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/lfx-cncf-mentorship/

We asked some of our top users about their experience, and 10/10 they would pick us all over again! Like Romain Degez, Managing Partner at Enix France: https://cloudnative-pg.io/end_users/